Early Spring

It's been an early spring in the Campbell house. Unusually warm weather here in Georgia for late-Feb/early-March. But no complaints here.

Emma is getting bigger and now enjoying her Exer-saucer.

And she's starting to get more chatty. It's amazing what one month will do.

Here she is in January chatting during a diaper change.

Emma Smiles from Frank Campbell on Vimeo.

And here she is in February chatting more often one month later.

Emma Full of Smiles from Frank Campbell on Vimeo.

Madeleine is enjoying the early spring as well. I spent one evening after dinner teaching her how to cast a fishing pole. It took her a few casts to get it down, but eventually got the hang of it.

We also played with Binoculars. She loved how close everything appeared when viewed through Binoculars.

One morning Madeleine and I took a walk through the woods in the park in the Amberton Subdivision. We had a great time and Madeleine had a chance to take nature photos with her camera.

This spring is turning out to be a great one! Looking forward to more fun as the spring progresses. We plan to take Madeleine and Emma to visit family over Easter and go to Disney this late spring, so we'll be looking forward to sharing more photos here.

Emma and Sophie

At our house, we love Sophie la Girafe. Sophie is a "classic" baby toy in France; millions of French babies have owned a Sophie. It's great for little hands and indispensable when it's teething time. Madeleine had one of her own and she loved that poor thing until it was beyond filthy and had lost most of its squeaky sound. We knew that Emma had to have one of her own!:


This is her first encounter with the beloved giraffe, and she's still not sure of it. But she'll grow to love Sophie, we're sure!

Frank's (early) birthday/Superbowl weekend

Here are some photos from the past weekend. Above is Madeleine hard at work on her next painting. As you can probably tell, the theme for this painting was "hearts".

Frank's birthday is Tuesday, but since he's traveling, we celebrated on Saturday night. Below is Frank with Emma, and an enormous chocolate ganache cake. Give it a year, kiddo, and you'll be able to have some of that cake.
Last night was the Superbowl--the Packers won, hooray! We had a picnic in our upstairs family room. Here's Emma and Madeleine. Madeleine decided to "fix" her hair and we let her keep the "unique" hair style for the day:

Emma's legs are getting stronger every day! (Of course, they were pretty strong to begin with, based on her kicking in utero):

Daddy and his baby girl:
Here's Madeleine with one of her favorite Christmas gifts, a Nintendo DS:

This photo was from this morning, during a change of pajamas. Emma's going through a bit of a rebellious phase when it comes to nap time. "Really, mommy, a 10-minute nap will suit me just fine." (NOT!) Even though she is unbelievably tired (and wearing just a little onesie on this cold winter day, before the new change of jammies), she had some smiles for mommy.

Sisters

So one thing I am trying to do as of late is to find photos of Emma and Madeleine, where they look relatively similar. I have not been successful with finding the perfect visual correlation as of yet, but I am still looking through my photos! For now, here are two pictures of the girls in the official Campbell play gym, one photo from late 2006 and the other from early 2011. Perhaps you can see at least SOME similarities....

Emma Smiles

We caught Emma smiling today while changing her diaper. We decided to get it on video.

Emma Smiles from Frank Campbell on Vimeo.

Notre petit ange

"Our little angel" now weighs 11 lbs. 4 oz.!

Testing the Bumbo seat

Our friends Scott and Sirena passed along a Bumbo Seat which their daughter used but has now outgrown. A week or two ago, we let Emma try it out, and she seemed to like sitting up and looking around. Here are some photos!

Daddy's trying to make her smile:


Such a cutie pie. Of course, we're biased. But she IS our little cutie!: